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Virginia Governor Restoring Voting Rights to Felons
NY TIMES ^
| 22 APR 2016
| Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Posted on 04/22/2016 9:05:38 AM PDT by onona
WASHINGTON Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia will use his executive power on Friday to restore voting rights to more than 200,000 convicted felons, circumventing his Republican-run legislature. The action will overturn a Civil War-era provision in the states Constitution aimed, he said, at disenfranchising African-Americans.
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: birdsofafeather; tedspeople; terrymcauliffe; virginia
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Legislature ? We don't need no stinking legislature.
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posted on
04/22/2016 9:05:38 AM PDT
by
onona
To: onona
Is he saying all African-Americans are Criminals ?
To: butlerweave
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posted on
04/22/2016 9:08:19 AM PDT
by
onona
(Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
To: onona
The left won’t be satisfied until even incarcerated jailbirds are allowed to vote as they are in Vermont. I’ve heard that also includes Maine now.
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posted on
04/22/2016 9:09:07 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
To: onona
Felons aren’t known to vote much
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posted on
04/22/2016 9:10:31 AM PDT
by
WriteOn
(Truth)
To: onona
Seems to me that the Civil War-era provision was and is reasonable!
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posted on
04/22/2016 9:10:54 AM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
To: butlerweave
I wonder if it has occurred to these crapheads, that if they hadn’t killed so many of their future voters, they wouldn’t be so desperate for voters from whatever source.
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posted on
04/22/2016 9:11:21 AM PDT
by
CMailBag
To: onona
Terry the Clinton bagman strikes again.
ESAD, McAuliffe.
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posted on
04/22/2016 9:12:04 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
To: onona
200,000 more democrat voters.
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posted on
04/22/2016 9:12:39 AM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: WriteOn
they are when they are PAID
To: onona
Kind of racist to say this was “aimed” at blacks. No one makes felons commit their crimes.
Only a liberal looks at crime stats and says that because blacks commit more crimes, the laws are set up to convict blacks.
Its like blaming society for rapists because we have laws against rape that target the activites rapists do at a much higher rate than everyone else.
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posted on
04/22/2016 9:17:08 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: onona
Wonder if McAwful will restore their Second Amendment rights, too?
LOL! When Hillarys fly...
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posted on
04/22/2016 9:17:37 AM PDT
by
kiryandil
(.)
To: onona
They will have to have served their time and completed parole as well.
A small set of the felon population, but it’s a start.
To: onona
Executive orders cannot override a constitution. Ridiculous. But of course all he needs is a single Obama appointee to win the state for Hillary.
To: butlerweave
Felon, it’s a newly identified race.
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posted on
04/22/2016 9:39:47 AM PDT
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
To: onona
L’état, c’est moi !
To: onona
I miss the rule of law.
Thomas Jefferson once talked about watering the Tree of Liberty. I wonder what he would say about a tyrant who overrode his state’s laws without authorization from the legislative body responsible for writing the laws.
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posted on
04/22/2016 9:47:31 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
To: onona
The action, which Mr. McAuliffe said was justified under an expansive legal interpretation of his executive clemency authority, goes far beyond what other governors have done, experts say, and will almost certainly provoke a backlash from Virginia Republicans, who have resisted measures to expand felons voting rights. It was planned in secrecy, and came amid an intensifying national debate over race, voting and the criminal justice system.So "executive clemency" gives the governor power to suspend the state constitution?
I know nothing about the use of gubernatorial clemency in Virginia. Is there precedent for this?
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posted on
04/22/2016 10:01:54 AM PDT
by
sphinx
To: sphinx
Nope, he's breaking new ground here.
Will allow felons to hold public office, as well.
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posted on
04/22/2016 10:09:12 AM PDT
by
onona
(Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
To: Gay State Conservative
Létat, cest moi ! You nailed it ! Of course, he has a great example to follow in DC
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posted on
04/22/2016 10:11:12 AM PDT
by
onona
(Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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